US 12,349,743 B2
Lower torso garment with support element
Sherry E. Kimel, King, NC (US); Tasha R. Perry, Winston-Salem, NC (US); Rachel I. Erickson, Winston-Salem, NC (US); and Melissa A. Coleman, Kernersville, NC (US)
Assigned to HBI BRANDED APPAREL ENTERPRISES, LLC, Winston-Salem, NC (US)
Filed by HBI BRANDED APPAREL ENTERPRISES, LLC, Winston-Salem, NC (US)
Filed on Aug. 9, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/818,698.
Application 17/818,698 is a continuation of application No. 17/238,665, filed on Apr. 23, 2021, abandoned.
Application 17/238,665 is a continuation of application No. 16/090,539, granted, now 10,986,877, previously published as PCT/US2017/027496, filed on Apr. 13, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/322,779, filed on Apr. 14, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2022/0378114 A1, Dec. 1, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A41B 9/02 (2006.01); A41B 9/00 (2006.01); A41B 9/12 (2006.01)
CPC A41B 9/023 (2013.01) [A41B 9/026 (2013.01); A41B 9/001 (2013.01); A41B 9/004 (2013.01); A41B 9/005 (2013.01); A41B 9/02 (2013.01); A41B 9/12 (2013.01); A41B 2300/22 (2013.01); A41B 2300/35 (2013.01); A41B 2400/38 (2013.01); A41B 2500/10 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A boxer brief, comprising:
a waistband at an upper end of the boxer brief;
a body portion;
a left leg portion comprising a first leg opening at a lower longitudinal end of the left leg portion;
a right leg portion comprising a second leg opening at a lower longitudinal end of the right leg portion;
a front pouch disposed about a front region of the body portion and provided in the form of a mesh fabric, the front pouch further defining a pass-through fly opening;
a gusset positioned at a bottom of the body portion between the left leg and right leg portions of the body portion, the gusset connected to the front pouch with a bottom horizontal seam at a bottom of the front pouch, and the bottom horizontal seam being entirely above the first leg opening and the second leg opening;
a support sling connected to the front pouch, the support sling comprising:
a left fabric panel comprising a left lateral seam and an exterior left lateral seam on the opposing side of the left fabric panel, the exterior left lateral seam extending along a left side periphery of the front pouch and connected to the bottom horizontal seam; and
a right fabric panel comprising a right lateral seam and an exterior right lateral seam on the opposing side of the right fabric panel, the exterior right lateral seam extending along a right side periphery of the front pouch and connected to the bottom horizontal seam; and
wherein a first portion of the left fabric panel overlaps a first portion of the right fabric panel at an overlap area, the overlap area positioned adjacent to the bottom horizontal seam at the bottom of the front pouch.